TUES­DAY, APRIL 5

The At­lanta Film Festival, the city’s sec­ond largest film festival, opens today and runs through April 10 at mul­ti­ple area venues, with sev­eral LGBT films as part of their Pink Peach se­ries, www.at­lantafilm­fes­ti­val.com

SATUR­DAY, APRIL 2 – 3

150 lo­cal and re­gional artists are part of the Spring Festival on Ponce, as well as live mu­sic, a kids area, a food truck and beer and wine, Satur­day, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. and Sun­day 11 a.m. – 6 p.m., www.fes­ti­val­on­ponce.com

SATUR­DAY, APRIL 2

Bring a cov­ered dish and plenty to talk about to the Les­bian 50+ Potluck and So­cial, 6 – 8 p.m., Rush Cen­ter An­nex, www.rush­cen­ter­atl.org The Va­ri­ety Play­house wel­comes co­me­dian Paula Pound­stone, 6 p.m., www.va­ri­ety-play­house.com Belinda Carlisle will sing “Mad About You” and more as she head­lines Cen­ter Stage at 9 p.m., www.cen­ter­stage-at­lanta.com If it’s 9 p.m. at BJ Roost­ers, hot boys will be on the bar, bar­tenders will be pour­ing strong drinks, and DJ Tommy will be spin­ning fun tunes, 2043 Cheshire Bridge Rd., At­lanta, GA 30324 Look­ing for a hot daddy? Then come to the first Satur­day DILF at Woof’s At­lanta, 9:30 p.m., www.woof­sat­lanta.com DJ Alex Acosta spins at www.jun­gleatl.com

Jun­gle At­lanta, The PFLAG sup­port group for les­bian, gay, bi­sex­ual, trans­gen­der and ques­tion­ing peo­ple and their par­ents and fam­ily meets tonight from 7:30 – 9 p.m. at the Uni­tar­ian Univer­sal­ist Con­gre­ga­tion of At­lanta, www.uuca.org Make your lunch break a net­work­ing op­por­tu­nity and con­nect with busi­ness pro­fes­sion­als, small busi­ness own­ers, job seek­ers and com­mu­nity sup­port­ers to ex­pand your cir­cle of in­flu­ence and grow your busi­ness at Con­nect­ing At­lanta, a net­work­ing lunch by MAAP (Metro At­lanta As­so­ci­a­tion of Pro­fes­sion­als). Join MAAP at Egg Har­bor Café (1820 Peachtree Street, At­lanta., GA 30309) on the first Tues­day of ev­ery month from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. for a net­work­ing lunch. There is no set price, just pay on your way out for your meal. The event is lim­ited to 20 par­tic­i­pants. Please pre-regis­ter by email­ing Todd Cosper at tcosper@maa­p­atl.org Art It Out Ther­apy Cen­ter is now of­fer­ing an Ex­pres­sive Art Ther­apy Group for LGBTQ Teens on Tues­days. Through art, the group will ex­plore self-iden­tity, cop­ing with stress, in­ti­mate and parental re­la­tion­ships, and com­ing out. 7 p.m.,